Towards Eternity
Ch 652's. The Ying Ancestral Forest
Led by the Hermit Goat, the ferocious beasts began to enter the thick fog.
Upon touching the fog, the Goat ascetic instantly unleashed his Soul Power to scan the location for five kilometers around him.
Immediately the fog within a five kilometer radius of him disappeared, and made them able to see clearly within the sea of fog, but only within a limit of five kilometers. More than five kilometers there was only fog blocking it.
This was the maximum limit that his Soul Power could do within the thick fog. Under ordinary conditions, his Soul Power would easily scan thousands of kilometers without the slightest problem, yet within the fog, it was, His Soul Power was suppressed to no more than one-thousandth of the range he could take.
"I can only unleash my Soul Power so far, more than this then I will receive a counterattack." The hermit Goat said to Lin Mei without caring for Weng Ying Luan in the slightest.
He was unwilling to talk to Weng Ying Luan who had already opened her card.
"En. that's more than enough. At least with your help, we can keep watch from sneak attacks" said Lin Mei.
"Command them to walk as close as possible and not too far from the Hermit Lord." Lin Mei gave the order to the giant eagle.
The screeches of the eagle rang out, and the ferocious beasts began to walk to the back of the Hermit Goat.
That way they all started walking into the fog with the Goat Sage in front. Hundreds of thousands of ferocious beasts followed right behind him. They are close together, leaving enough space around them.
This space was to give them a wide viewing distance so that they could see if there was an attack from the enemy.
All the wild beasts walked following the Goat Sage. While behind them, the giant eagle ridden by Lin Mei and Weng Ying Luan and the Lion King walked up following.
The Lion King also unleashed his Soul Power so that the back had an additional one kilometer area.
Above the giant eagle, Weng Ying Luan and Lin Mei looked at their surroundings. The place they were passing by right now was a fairly large forest area. According to the map obtained by Weng Ying Luan from a 'fansman', this place of theirs was called Black Ancestor Ying.
This forest was one of the four sacred places belonging to the Ying Family.
It was said that the ancestors from the Ying Family came from this forest. As many people in the Mainland knew, the ancestor of the Ying Family was a Nine-Headed White Snake that transformed into a human after obtaining the Book of Cunning, one of the Heavenly Cities.
The current leader of the Ying Family was none other than the direct descendant of the Nine-Headed White Snake who had turned into a human. He was a person at the late peak Soul Emperor who also inherited the Book of Cunning from his ancestor.
Surprisingly, the Book of Cunning had been passed down generation after generation within the Ying Family so that every new Head of the Family would become its owner, until the new Head of the Family was appointed.
No one knows why, but this has been going on for thousands of years.
This Ying Ancestral Forest was once a forest that was home to a species of millions of snake types. There were three rulers within the forest long ago, the Nine-Headed White Snake was one of them. Due to a coincidence, he obtained the Book of Cunning that belonged to a famous Martial Practitioner in the past, his name was Ying Canren. He used to create a lot of trouble in Mainland.
Starting from killing someone, to killing all members of a fairly famous martial family in the past alone. All of that for the sake of increasing his Practice Level using the Book of Cunning. The last crime he made before disappearing from the martial world was beheading the head of the Yang Family Head back then. After that there was no news of him.
Some say that he died from his injuries that he obtained while fighting with the Yang Family Head. The last time he was seen was in this Ying Ancestor Forest. Most likely the Nine-Headed White Snake killed him and took possession of the Book of Cunning from Ying Canren. After he turned into a human, the Nine-headed White Snake took the name Ying She as its name. Whether it was because he respected Ying Canren, or because of anything else, no one knew.
The only thing that was certain was, that there had never been an announcement of Ying She's death, so people started to speculate that Ying She was actually still alive until now and became the protector of the Ying Family. Now, the Ying Ancestral Forest became the place used by the Ying Family to conduct the High-Level Ability Examination.
The purpose of this High Level Ability Exam was to make the bloodline of the Nine-headed White Snake bloodline within the body of the young members of the Ying Family awaken further. Certainly not a young member from among the outer members, but from the main members who do have the bloodline of the Nine-headed White Snake with a percentage exceeding seventy percent in their bodies.
"Near here should be the territory of the Green Serpent Dragon. He possessed the strength of a Soul King level, and was famous for being the most aggressive among the two rulers of the Ying Ancestral Forest. His camouflage ability was formidable and would usually attack anyone who dared to enter his territory," Weng Ying Luan explained as she read the map scroll before her.
All of this information was obtained by Weng Ying Luan alone.
Since he was moving alone, he could freely inspect the entire city before then destroying it. He obtained many history books belonging to the city leader who was the main member of the Ying Family in each city he came to.
Other than leveling all the important places belonging to the Ying Family, he would be busy reading books the entire time. He flew from one place to another while reading the books he had obtained.
Normally, Weng Ying Luan would not be willing to read history books like this. Weng Lou will do it, not him. However since he felt responsible as long as there was no Weng Lou, he decided to read these books.
It took an effort to convince himself to start reading a single book, but he finally felt interested because he felt an interest in the origin of the Ying Family who was a Nine-Headed White Snake.
Ever since he could control the Lion King using his bloodline abilities, he was curious about the origin of himself and his mother.
He felt that if he gave more interest to the matter, he would be able to figure it out quickly.
When Weng Ying Luan was still telling Lin Mei, the Goat Sage who was leading the army of ferocious beasts suddenly stopped stepping foot and immediately put on a alert position.
He looked to his right and left, as if looking for something.
"Fucking moss dragon, we just want to pass! We have no intention at all to fight with you and your subordinates!" exclaiming Goat Sage.
His voice that was aided with Soul Power resounded throughout the forest. A ripple was created in the air as it charged forward and crashed into a transparent shield.
The protector slowly disappeared and revealed the form of a huge green snake, extremely huge. Its body length was not less than a kilometer. Two long fangs decorated his mouth that was being covered.
At first glance, his head looked like a real dragon, with two horns on top of his head.
Under the huge snake, there were hundreds of other green snakes that had much smaller bodies. Yet their bodies were all tens and even hundreds of meters long.
"Unfortunately, me and some of my subordinates have the intention to fight with all of you. So there's no need to think about getting out of this place."
The voice of the giant serpent echoed back to the words of the Hermit Goat. All the snakes below him hissed with a deafening sound.
The Goat Sage gulped when he heard the sound of the Green Serpent Dragon. Only from the exchange of words could he sense that the strength of this Green Serpent Dragon far exceeded that of a newly entered Soul King stage.
The power of the Green Serpent Dragon should be at the final stage of the Soul King, barely becoming a Soul Emperor.
When the Goat Sage was looking for the right answer to give to the Green Serpent Dragon, another voice sounded from behind the army of beasts.
"You want a battle? Then you'll get it!"
The ascetic Goat choked on its own saliva upon hearing that voice. It was none other than the voice of the person he hated the most at the moment.
Weng Ying Luan!